Originally Posted by zacster

It took an hour when I first started, and it takes an hour now. It isn't the riding speed, I'm a much faster, longer endurance rider now than ever but you just can't beat the NYC traffic lights. The things I've improved on is that I can now go from 14th St to 23rd without getting stuck at 20th by riding faster, and I'm much faster up the bridge's incline of about 4%. That adds up to about 2 minutes total and I get stuck somewhere else instead.